Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ADAPTATION-NEXT. Two one-acters, both directed with a crisp and zany comic flair by Elaine May. Miss May's own play, Adaptation, is the game of life staged like a TV contest. Terrence McNally's Next has James Coco in a fine performance as a middle-aged man undergoing a series of humiliating pre-induction examinations...
TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN. Woody Allen (who shared the authorship of this zany crime flick) has the star (an inept criminal played by Woody Allen) go through so many bungles that the film loses much of its comic momentum. However, the director (Woody Allen) sustains it all by providing some insanely funny moments...
ADAPTATION-NEXT. Elaine May directs both her own play, Adaptation, and Terrence McNally's Next in an evening of perceptive and richly comic one-acters...
...TAKES A THIEF (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Senta Berger and Nigel Patrick are the guest stars in a comic caper, "Flowers from Alexander...
...1950s, Abstract Expressionism was the new academicism. A million haphazard abstractions splashed from the hands of virtually every art student able to clasp a brush or wield a tube of paint. A reaction was inevitable, though no one dreamed its name would be Pop, its inspiration advertising and comic strips. To many, the antidote was distinctly more unpleasant than the malady. But there were moments of high humor and certainly social awareness. A rich, fat and powerful consumer society was rich, fat and powerful enough to accept its own image, no matter how ugly it turned out to be. Perhaps...